http://www.osnews.com/story/24586/Google_To_Be_Audited_on_Privacy_After_Buzz_Complaints Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 14:28:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?468470 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468470 I created yahoo answers account once, locked down my profile as much as I could. It didn't have the same name/avatar as my yahoo mail account, but they were associated.

Turns out every question I asked or answered was visible to my yahoo mail contacts (ie. RL people, friends, relatives, professional contacts etc.) without my knowledge.

It wasn't until I emailed myself something and saw a list of updates for "see what this user has been up to" on the confirmation page that I had any idea. In the updated feed, they replaced my username/avatar with my email username/avatar.

It was a huge breach of my privacy and I have seen nobody else online mention it I suppose because nobody uses/cares about Yahoo any more? It doesn't make it any more right.Edited 2011-03-31 07:02 UTC Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (milliamp) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?468474 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468474 This is the type of service you get these days - it's all about the money, by selling / showing your info at the proper places, obscured EULAs, even my lawyer cannot understand it, fortunately there are some commissions to work on that. The moral is: don't show too much interesting stuff on the net, as you may end up being disappointed, even if the provider had good intentions, still, errors can happen. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kvarbanov) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?468481 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468481 Excellent. Google made a mistake, this way it isn't likely to happen again. I think this solution is better for everybody, including Google itself.

The FTC should do this more often though, not just with corporations like Google that are cooperative and open about their mistakes. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (geertjan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?468620 http://www.osnews.com/thread?468620 So, as EULAs are contracts, you show them to your lawyer.

To avoid weird problems in the future that's a good move :-)Edited 2011-03-31 22:32 UTC Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nth_Man) Comments